The grand headphone/earphone for the budget army, booya!
Who is Superlux?
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Starting from a bachelor apartment just 30 years ago, the Superlux company is now a modern manufacturer occupying a 8.65-acre (350 Ares) site in the heart of Shanghai city. We do not stop there. We are currently building a brand new 57.66-acre (2333 Ares) facility in the Superlux industrial zone at Lan-Yuan port, China. This growth would not have been possible without the strong commitment throughout the years of you, our friends and partners. We cherish every opportunity when we can work together to bring the greatest products to the users. Value in Sound is our core belief, continually motivating us to go forward. Our best reward is to hear you say, "Wow, Superlux products are a really great value!” Then all our efforts have been worthwhile.
We insist on doing the right thing and doing it right from start to finish. We focus on electronic audio products, R&D and production. From the input to the output, from the microphones, amplifiers and headphones to the speakers, we have a very complete product line. Our strengths are a high production rate, a global hub logistics center and an ERP internal control system. Our management team integrates R&D, production, marketing and sales so we can always provide a total solution for our customers.
An important part of our R & D is Mr Pan Zheng Yuan who was invited to join the Superlux team in1996. Mr. Pan is from a pioneering microphone family who successfully developed the first condenser microphone in China 60 years ago. Following in his father's footsteps, Mr. Pan has worked on developing electroacoustic products for 48 years and is a master technician who is truly passionate about his art. His expertise has proved invaluable and he is truly an inspiration to everybody in the R & D team at Superlux.
Superlux is a company who thinks highly of our employees' training and benefits. Through daily exercise, we motivate our people and grow together to create a strong team, one of the best in the industry. We have a very long vision for the electronic audio industry, and hope to create even more value for you, our friends and partners.
We insist on doing the right thing and doing it right from start to finish. We focus on electronic audio products, R&D and production. From the input to the output, from the microphones, amplifiers and headphones to the speakers, we have a very complete product line. Our strengths are a high production rate, a global hub logistics center and an ERP internal control system. Our management team integrates R&D, production, marketing and sales so we can always provide a total solution for our customers.
An important part of our R & D is Mr Pan Zheng Yuan who was invited to join the Superlux team in1996. Mr. Pan is from a pioneering microphone family who successfully developed the first condenser microphone in China 60 years ago. Following in his father's footsteps, Mr. Pan has worked on developing electroacoustic products for 48 years and is a master technician who is truly passionate about his art. His expertise has proved invaluable and he is truly an inspiration to everybody in the R & D team at Superlux.
Superlux is a company who thinks highly of our employees' training and benefits. Through daily exercise, we motivate our people and grow together to create a strong team, one of the best in the industry. We have a very long vision for the electronic audio industry, and hope to create even more value for you, our friends and partners.
Why Superlux?
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Superlux products shall be impressed by ourselves than to impress the consumer. This is our desire and passion for the past 30+ years of audio product and service provision to our value customers.Performance, quality, and price are the essences of Superlux products. It is also the latest achievement from Superlux.
We are touched, and hope you will be.
We are touched, and hope you will be.
Superlux ISO certs
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Hitman66's view on Superlux HD660
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QUOTE(Hitman66 @ Apr 21 2012, 08:58 PM)
Superlux HD660
Short Impression
Short Impression
After owning both HD681 and HD668B for quite a some time, I’ve been wonder regarding the rest of superlux products such as HD660 and HD330. They look pretty much identical with beyerdynamics headphones especially the HD660 where it looks exactly like the beyerdynamics DT770 pro. The price different is obviously large hence the question pops on whatever it actually performs the same with the DT770? Regardless HD660 has it’s own merits through. For female vocal lovers out there, this would be the best headphone you ever own at RM150 price range.
HD660 is a closed design headphone. Allowing you to be isolated from outside noise
Unlike any other superlux headphones that I received so far, this one comes along with a solid, black colored headphone case which is pretty useful for portability purposes during travel. Inside contains the 3.5mm to 6.3mm plug audio adapter and the HD660 itself. Another unique feature for HD660 is that coiled cable are being used on it instead of regular straight cable that you normally get with the HD668B or the HD669. Coiled type cable did give some benefits over the straight ones through. One of them is that it prevents the wire to be clogged up whatever you’re listening to music,etc. However the cable on HD660 is undetachable unlike the ones from HD668B and HD669, meaning that you need to be extra careful on using the HD660 otherwise it would be difficult to fix it up whenever the cable issues comes up. By the time of writing, the HD660 has been burned in no less than 50 hours which personally I think it’s sufficient enough to show the readers out there what HD660 can perform on various genre of music out there.
HD660 uses coiled cable unlike other superlux product which uses detachable straight cable instead.
I start off by listening to “SAKURA” by Monkey Majik. I found out that the vocalist sounds really sweet with this headphone. The sound separation between the vocalist and the musical instrument is clearly noticeable for the most part. Clarity wise, comparing with the superlux HD668B, isn’t that but the differences are pretty small to say the least. The bass is shallow to me taste through, but the sweet mids alone already covers off the lacking that I find throughout the song is playing.
Next would be “Fly Me To The Moon” by Olivia Ong. The mids sound very sweet and forwarded as well, way better then what I experienced earlier with “SAKURA”. The acoustic detail is clearly noticeable especially during the guitar solo performance being played at that time. The soundstage is pretty narrow to me through. The only good explanation for this is because HD660 is actually a closed design headphone. In theory the soundstage it produces would be smaller compared to the likes of semi-open and full opened headphones such as HD668B hence the reason why I’m experiencing this with the HD660. Minor sibilant can be heard from time to time though but that doesn’t actually ruin the great listening moment that I had with the HD660.
My only main concern on HD660 is that among any superlux products I tried so far, this includes HD681, HD688B and the HD699, HD660 produces the least bass which certainly will not entertain you when comes to any bass oriented songs you came across to. This reminds me of the Audio Technica ATH-AD700 which can produce the best mids you can find at it’s price range while at the same time I find that it lacks bass which is needed in some songs I usually listened to.
I did tried two of my headphone amplifier available at that time, the internal amp you found on the the maverick D1 and also darkvoice THA332 tube amp on the HD660. I do find out that with darkvoice it gives an improvement on the bass impact and a hell lot on the mids as well. On another hand however, the ones from maverick D1 give insignificant improvement to the HD660 which through this I can conclude that a more powerful headphone amp is needed to drive the HD660 to it’s real potential.
Overall, I do think that the HD660 is pretty satisfying to listen to especially if you’re an avid vocal jazz listener where the headphone performs best at. I do surprise that such a closed design headphone could produce such a low amount of bass, an opposite on what any other closed design headphone can do such as the beyerdynamic DT770. However this is how HD660 performs right now. I do believe that with a longer burn-in process, the sound signature would change to a degree that it might solve that bass shy problem that the HD660 suffers right now.
P/S : A big thanks to Trio for lending his HD660 for couple of days for this article. Also note that the article has been collecting dust since last year hence the reason why I didn't use the objective 2 headphone amplifier to test it out with the HD660.
Other reviews
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HD668B Review from Headfonia
668b Review from soundtrack forum
668b User reviews from head-fi
Short review on 681
Review on 381!!
660 Review from Gearslutz
651 review from headfonia
Review for Superlux Amplifier, HA3DReview of HD330, 440, 660 from Headfonia
HD381 review by "1st"
Rifasha's review on HD668B
HD669 review by Hitman66
Superlux products
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HD440
HD551
HD572
HD572A
HD651
HMC651
HD330
HD531
HD631
HD660
HD661
HD662
HD668B
HD669
HD681
IEM
HD251V
HD381 3pc pack
HD381
HD386
HD391NC
HD551
HD572
HD572A
HD651
HMC651
HD330
HD531
HD631
HD660
HD661
HD662
HD668B
HD669
HD681
IEM
HD251V
HD381 3pc pack
HD381
HD386
HD391NC
Replacement pads for more comfort
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This post has been edited by noobandroid: May 19 2013, 04:05 PM